News recap

Forget the term limits vote for November. Superior Court Judge Robert H. O'Brien took the City Council's measure off the ballot, ruling — as City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo advised — that it combines two subjects and thus violates the state Constitution. The council might appeal.

Does Elliot Mintz have the worst job in Hollywood? He got the call after 1 am that his most troublesome client, Paris Hilton, had been arrested for DUI after blowing a 0.08. She was released on OR after an hour or so at the Hollywood station and later called in to Ryan Seacrest on KIIS-FM, telling him she had been looking for an In-N-Out burger.

It's a bonanza for lobbyists as the Villaraigosa Administration's airport commission considers throwing open bidding on concession contracts at LAX.

Caltrans is still stumped by the official looking Trump golf course signs popping up on freeways.

Eli and Edythe Broad give $6 million to the L.A. Opera for a production of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle.

Adrienne Crew signs off on her LAist Interview series with some questions for the artist Fette. Crew is the last of the original LAist writers to depart the site.